This poll contains your nominations for the September 2013 category. This visible poll is multiple choice and will be open for 5 days.

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The 2013 MobileRead Book Club Monthly Categories

January: Second ChanceNo nominations this month. The polls will be comprised of selections that either came in second place or tied for second place during the previous 11 months.

February Romance

March Travel/Adventure

April Classics

May Mystery/Thriller

June Award Winners

July Non-Fiction

August Science Fiction

For reference and comparison purposes only, here are the 2012 Categories:

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January — RunnerUp (no nominations, a vote of all the runners-up nominations from the last 11 months)
February — Romance
March — Thriller/Suspense
May — Humour
May — Fantasy
June — Classic
July — Mystery/Crime
August — FreeForAll
September — NonFiction
October — Horror
November — Science Fiction
December — Classic

It looks like a landslide for challenged books. 2/3rds of people are picking it. I know I'll have fun perusing lists of books for one. I had found one, and it's quite possible we could have a challenged/young adult selection since I remember seeing Judy Blume books on one list.

Banned or Challenged Books is clearly in the lead. In theory I think month honoring Banned Book Week is a good idea. In practice, all too many books that have been banned for sexual or political content should have been banned instead for boring their readers.

Banned or Challenged Books is clearly in the lead. In theory I think month honoring Banned Book Week is a good idea. In practice, all too many books that have been banned for sexual or political content should have been banned instead for boring their readers.

Oh so now we get to be bored by these boring books. Thanks a lot.

I think I am going to interpret challenged books to mean challenging books. At least that way, there's more of a chance for a book that's not old and dull.

The addition of challenged books makes this anything but another boring book category. If you look at the most challenged books between 2000-2009 you get titles like the following:

Harry Potter Series
His Dark Materials Series
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Giver
The Lovely Bones
Snow Falling on Cedars

They're slightly more modern in some ways, but you also get authors like Judy Blume, Robert Cormier, Katherine Patterson, Madeleine L'Engle, R. L. Stine, Garth Nix, S. E. Hinton. Some of the titles are classic Young Adult reads.

Start going into other decades and you actually get some titles by Stephen King like Carrie, Cujo and The Dead Zone.

I don't think the exercise has to be a drag. Even The Da Vinci Code has been a banned book in Lebanon. Of course, I might well think that reading The Da Vinci Code is a major drag, but it is in the thriller category.